[Steven D'Aprano] > (The same applies to Unix/Linux systems too, of course.) But while you're > using Python to manipulate files, you should use Python rules, and that > is "always use forward slashes". > > Is that reasonable? > > Under what circumstances would a user calling open(pathname) in Python > need to care about backslashes?
Cough cough On Windows a path is e.g.: C:\programs\util\ So why should I use forward slashes in a Python literal? I don't remember any problem caused by using backslashes in paths in Python - are there problems? (Apart from the fact that Python dos not have true raw string literals) So what is reasonable about using forward slashes? It happens to me that I need to copy-paste real paths like 100 times a day into scripts - do you propose to convert to forward slashes each time? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
